Brand takes a back seat
Edinburgh University's psychology department was guilty of an error of judgement in appointing self-styled "scientific racist" Chris Brand as convener of an ethics committee, the university's dean of...
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Bosses to call the shots
Ministers have sent radical proposals to Sir Ron Dearing's inquiry into higher education which would transform universities into advanced training academies. They want a dramatic increase in the...
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Field of knowledge
(Photograph) - New universities in sites from London Docklands to the Highlands of Scotland will mean a new look for British higher education in the new millennium (page 6, opinion, page 11)....
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Guildhall vote to strike
Academic staff at London Guildhall University have voted to strike in protest against compulsory redundancies and a proposed pay freeze. A ballot, concluded this week, found 55 per cent in favour of...
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Politics lacks punters
Political science is falling victim to its practitioners' reluctance to compete for grants, according to a leading official of the Economic and Social Research Council. The Political Science...
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Fine tuning
(Photograph) - Kenneth Elliott, senior honorary research fellow in Glasgow University's department of music, enlists the help of soprano Mhairi Lawson and lutenist Jacob Heringman to launch the first...
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Carry on campus
Drinking binges, pill popping and cannabis smoking feature with alarming prominence in undergraduate life, according a University of Newcastle upon Tyne study. Some 3,075 second-year students from...
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Monarch of glen takes the high road
Brian Duffield, dean of the faculty of cultural and education studies at Leeds Metropolitan University, has been appointed chief executive of UHI Ltd, the body taking forward plans for a new...
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Teacher reform
The Government has unveiled plans for a school-based teacher training scheme. The Graduate Teacher programme will allow anyone with a degree to train in the classroom for up to a year to gain...
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Jobs reprieved
Two lecturers at University of Wales College, Newport have fought off job cuts because of a rise in student numbers. Some 44 academic job cuts had been planned to help cut a projected Pounds 2.4...
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Colleges fight for title
College principals are worried that the future role of their institutions may be "set in aspic" after Sir Ron Dearing's review of the sector. Their umbrella body, the Standing Conference of...
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Internet
THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features, reviews and advertisements in the newspaper, plus a full list of institutions in British further and higher education. Job...
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Traditional job routes die hard
Traditional jobs still top most graduates' wish-lists even though such jobs are harder to find and corporate employers prefer students from older universities, according to a survey by the Institute...
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Lincoln campus rescued from brink
The company set up to finance Britain's newest university campus faced liquidation just three months before the campus opened. The University of Lincoln project company had to draw up an emergency...
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Readership inflation
Cambridge University is facing protests from some leading dons about the recent tripling in the number of readerships. They fear that the policy of raising the proportion of readerships to the...